-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Firefox Revisited
- From: betty <nextcent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:07:56 -0500
Thanks again, Troth. That is some story about the loss of your
photos....certainly much
worse than losing bookmarks. I do have a list of the bookmarks. Wish I
knew how to get
them into Opera.
In an earlier email, I thought you had given some indication that the
bad disk message
I got, wasn't as bad as if it had also mentioned sectors and such. At
any rate, I'll keep
my fingers crossed that you come up with something I can use. Disk
Defragmenter won't
do it, huh? I had run it earler today.
Best,
Betty
~OoO~ wrote:
>Alright... yes, losing bookmarks is certainly better than losing a hard =
>drive. However, keep in mind, this is not really a choice. You're not =
>being given a choice of, say, lose your favorites or lose your hard =
>drive. While this all started with the bookmarks, most of the time the =
>way people find a problem on their computer is by mistake. I could have =
>years of photos stored on my computer and hardly ever look at them, =
>constantly just adding more photos to the folder daily. Then, finally, =
>one day 3 years later I decide to look at my photos from January 1st, =
>2001. Suddenly, I realize that each photo I am trying to open on that =
>date is coming up as unreadable. I look at a different date. Some thing. =
>I look at the photos from yesterday... same thing. Now, what I once =
>thought was secure and safe turns out a disaster. I've been saving all =
>these photos and everything's corrupt. To make a long-story short... =
>this is a true story, my story, just it wasn't ALL my photos. Out of =
>about 3000 photos, very important ones that is, I lost about a few =
>hundred of some older ones. I thought everything was good, yet the drive =
>was bad as I later found out.
>
>So... the Mozilla is not causing the grief. If your drive is bad, its =
>bad. While hitting it head on now might bring all the problems to the =
>table, it will save you from a disaster later on. If the drive is bad, =
>its bad. How long you have before it goes completely is a different =
>story. I would definitely suggest using some sort of application to scan =
>the drive for errors and/or other problems. I can't think of any =
>freeware ones off the top of my head, except for Scan Disk which is =
>included with Windows. I'll see if I can dig any up.
>
>Regarding the favorites... like I said before, the bookmarks are the =
>ones you want. If you can access that bookmarks.html file we talked =
>about, copy just that file, so at least you have your bookmarks. You can =
>even print it out, so at least you have something.
>
>---Troth
>
>
>
>
>
>
--
<Please delete this line and everything below.>
To unsub or change your email settings:
//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk
To access our Archives:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/
//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/
Other related posts:
